Staff
| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Coxon, Peter | |
| College Address | Geography, Museum Building |
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| Main Department | Geography | |
| College Title | Professor | |
| peter.coxon@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1213/2025 | |
| Web | http://www.tcd.ie/Geography/Courses/pcoxon/ | |
| Fax | +353 1 671 3397 | |
| Biography | |
| An early interest in landscape and landscape evolution was fostered by family holidays in Wales and Scotland and honed at school (Eastbourne Grammar School 1966-1973) by A-Level geography and in particular a field trip to Charnwood Forest and a fascination in the contents of G.H.Dury's book "The Face of the Earth". After A-levels I went to Sussex to study Geography in the School of Biological Sciences (1973-1976) where I developed interests in plant physiology and biochemistry but managed to pull back at the last minute and headed into Quaternary geomorphology. After graduating from Sussex I went to the Sub-Department of Quaternary Research in the Botany School at Cambridge to work under Professor R.G.West FRS on the 'Pleistocene environmental history of east Anglia' (1976-1979). It was at Cambridge that I trained as a palynologist and sedimentologist. A lectureship at TCD advertised in 1979 seemed like a good plan. .../ | |
| Teaching interests and responsibilities | |
| I like teaching | |
| Professional Qualifications | |
| Qualification | Institution | Class of Degree | Title of Dissertation | Date Conferred |
| BSc | University of Sussex | First Class Honours | Late-glacial and Holocene non-marine Mollusca. Cuckmere Valley. Sussex. | July 1976 |
| PhD | University of Cambridge | Pleistocene environmental history in central East Anglia | November 1979 |
| Administrative Functions | |
| Details | Level | Date From | Date To |
| Head Department of Geography | 2013 | 2016 | |
| Science Course Director (TR071) TCD Science 'Common Entry' | Director | 2008 | 2011 |
| Secretary-General of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) | Secretary-General | 2003 | 2011 |
| Scientific Programme Committee for XXVII INQUA Congress, Bern, 2011 (http://www.inqua.tcd.ie/index.html) | Chair | 2009 | 2011 |
| Head, Department of Geography | 2010 | 2013 | |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Member of the Quaternary Research Association (QRA) | 1977 | |
| Member of the Irish Quaternary Association (IQUA) | 1979 |
| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| IQUA Frank Mitchell Award for excellence in research and teaching | December 2011 |
| Member Royal Irish Academy (MRIA) | 2002 |
| Fellow Trinity College Dublin (FTCD) | 1992 |
| Education Details | |
| School/College | Date From | Date To |
| BSc. (Geography and Biology) University of Sussex | October 1973 | June 1976 |
| PhD. University of Cambridge | October 1976 | September 1979 |
| Employment Details | |
| Position Held | Job Description | Where | Date From | Date To |
| Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor | Department of Geography TCD | September 1979 | present |
| Description of Research Interests |
| Primarily my research interests are critical aspects of Quaternary geomorphology including the use of geomorphological mapping (glacial geology), mass-movements and failures in Quaternary sediments, reconstructing flood events, environmental archaeology, palynological techniques and geomorphology to analyse landscape change and to solve stratigraphical problems in Quaternary and Tertiary deposits. Much of this work has been published and I have an active research profile with projects under way. I have wide experience in the field of geomorphology, in particular glacial and periglacial geomorphology and landforms and sediments using field mapping, sedimentological and remote sensing techniques. |
| Research Interests | |||
| CLIMATE CHANGE | Earth Science | Earth Sciences for Climate Research | Earth Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Processes |
| Erosion | Geomorphology | Glacial sedimentology | Glaciology |
| Irish denudation chronology | Paleontology | Paleontology, Paleoecology | Quarternary science |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Pleistocene biostratigraphy in Ireland |
| Summary | Elucidating organic sequences of Late- and Middle Pleistocene age using palaeoecology, dating and sedimentological analyses |
| Funding Agency | EU, TCD, FORBAIRT... |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 1979 |
| Date to | ongoing |
| Person Months | |
| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Ireland under Ice in, editor(s)Matthew Jebb and Colm Crowley , Secrets of the Irish Landscape, Cork, Cork University Press, 2013, pp20 - 27, [Peter Coxon] | |
| Cenozoic: Tertiary and Quaternary (until 11,700 years before 2000) in, editor(s)Charles H. Holland & Ian S. Sanders , The Geology of Ireland (2nd Edition), Edinburgh, Dunedin Academic Press, 2009, pp355 - 396, [Coxon, P. and McCarron, S.G.] | |
| Clague, J., Coxon, P., Avery, M., Chivas, A., Piotrowski, J., Rousseau, D.-D., Zisheng, A., , Revision of the geological time scale; Implications for the ‘Quaternary’, Quaternary Perspectives , 14, 2004, p124 - 125 | |
| Vaughan,A.P.M., Dowling,L.A., Mitchell,F.J.G., Lauritzen, S-E., McCabe,A.M. and Coxon,P. , Depositional and post-depositional history of warm stage deposits at Knocknacran, Co.Monaghan, Ireland: implications for preservation of Irish last interglacial deposits., Journal of Quaternary Science, 19, (6), 2004, p577 - 590 | |
| Coxon,P., Understanding Irish landscape evolution: Pollen assemblages from Neogene and Pleistocene palaeosurfaces in western Ireland., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 101B, (1-2), 2001, p85 - 97 | |
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